According to the latest statistics released by the motorcycle industry trade association in Poland (PZPM), the number of new motorcycles registered there was up by +74.75 percent in September (1,564 units) and is now running at 145.72 percent for the year-to-date (20,429 units).
In total new PTW registration terms, September was down by -3.15 percent and is flat for the year as a whole so far at -0.54 percent.
The statistics for Poland are difficult to compare with elsewhere in the EU, and with domestic Polish year-on-year data. It is a small but fast growing market, one where the number of mopeds sold has a big impact on the overall PTW picture; the Polish new moped market was -27.38 percent at 2,090 units for September and is running at -31.41 percent (24,979 units) for the year-to-date.
It is also a market where the high number of pre-owned motorcycles that are registered for the first time in Poland (imported from Germany and other markets) represents good news for the parts and accessory industry.
However, at the higher value new motorcycles end of the market, the growth is statistically impressive. The data collected by ACEM, the Brussels based international motorcycle industry trade association for Europe, shows that Poland was actually the 7th largest in the EU in 2014 at 9,847 units - only a little less than The Netherlands.
In that context this year's registrations are already well ahead of last year, with three more months of data still to come. The pre-owned motorcycles seeing their first registration in Poland so far this year are put at 51,841 units for the year so far (+31.51 percent), taking the total new and pre-owned motorcycle count to 72,270 units for the year-to-date, which is up by +51.40 percent over the first nine months of 2014.
Including new and pre-owned mopeds, that makes Poland a 108,413 unit market (+13.05 percent) in terms of new PTWs of all kinds that are new to the roads of Poland in the first nine months of this year.
www.pzpm.org.pl
